Which site are you based in?

[Ferdie11]

You work as a Service Desk Agent at ABC company (not real) with several different sites across the country. An employee or user calls in and wants to have his/her password changed.

You ask him/her:

Which site are you based in?. Is this correct?

Thanks so much for the help.

 

[emsr2d2]

You work as a Service Desk Agent at ABC company (not real) with several different sites across the country. An employee or user calls in and wants to have his/her password changed.

You ask him/her:

Which site are you based in?. Is this correct?

Thanks so much for the help.

Which site are you based at?
Where are you based?

 

[Ferdie11]

Thanks so much for your suggestions. But you did not answer the question.

 

[riquecohen]

Thanks so much for your suggestions. But you did not answer the question.

Can you not infer from the respose given that the answer is "no?"

 

[emsr2d2]

Thanks so much for your suggestions. But you did not answer the question.

Let me try again.

No. It is not correct. You need to say:

Which site are you based at?
Where are you based?

 

[BobSmith]

You work as a Service Desk Agent at ABC company (not real) with several different sites across the country. An employee or user calls in and wants to have his/her password changed.

You ask him/her:

Which site are you based in?. Is this correct?

Does the highlighted information have anything to do with your question to them? If so, perhaps the correct question is:

Which site are you [working on | looking at | logged in to]?

It's a stretch, I know.

 

[Ferdie11]

Let me try again.

No. It is not correct. You need to say:

Which site are you based at?
Where are you based?

Thanks so much. Could anyone give me a situation where I can say:

Which site are you based in?

 

[emsr2d2]

Thanks so much. Could anyone give me a situation where I can say:

Which site are you based in?

I can't think of one, because the accepted preposition after "based" (when talking about this kind of location) is "at".

There are different prepositions which follow "based" in different contexts:

Which country are you based in?
Which site are you based at?
What is your assumption based on?

 

[BobSmith]

You also can be based out of somewhere.

Which country are you based out of?
Which site are you based out of?

I don't think this works though:
What is your assumption based out of?

 

[emsr2d2]

You also can be based out of somewhere.

Which country are you based out of?
Which site are you based out of?

I don't think this works though:
What is your assumption based out of?

We hear the "out of" construction much less in BrE.

 

[BobSmith]

We hear the "out of" construction much less in BrE.

I believe "out of" means you're either traveling or otherwise displaced.

1: Are you from here?
2: Well, I'm based out of New York, but I'm on permanent assignment here.